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Germany's Biggest Women's Magazine Bans Models From Its Pages

by Annina Bergman | October 6, 2009 at 01:10 pm

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Germany's most popular magazine for women, Brigitte, will no longer feature professional models on its pages. Instead, it will use images of "real life" women.

Brigitte's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told the Guardian that the magazine will stop using skinny models from the year 2010. He said that Brigitte has had to use Photoshop to make the models bigger for years, and they and their readers have become so fed up with the practice that only regular size women will be featured in the future.

"Today's models weigh around 23% less than normal women," Lebert said. "The whole model industry is anorexic."

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at 13:20 on October 6th, 2009

Let's hope Germany's bold move will encourage other magazines to follow.

There was a model in the U.S. who posed nude in a mazine, and she had a little tummy, and the public response was extremely positive to have more normal looking women.

Hank Thomas Wiebe (not verified)

at 11:17 on December 30th, 2009

Women are real. Not airbrushed. You need to interview the wonderful lady from The Fat and Forty blog thefatandforty.blogspot.com/ She really tells it like it is. She is a 40 something singer/songwriter/musician/teacher from Vancouver, Canada. She manages 1 Vancouver actor, Cainan Wiebe and 1 Vancouver singer/songwriter, Hailey Morgan and is producer/director/writer of EiKids www.eikids.ca/ She is incredible and she is Fat and Forty. She writes inspiring blog posts for real women struggling with the bulge and shares insights into her fast paced world. She is amazing!!!Thanks!